Current Sociology
Sociologist of the Month
‘Sociologist of the Month’ campaigns are monthly campaigns on social media initiated in 2015 to highlight the work of different sociologists from around the world, both established and more junior, who have published with Current Sociology. During the period of their feature, their article is available as free access. This is one way among others to draw attention to the work of diverse sociologists and promote sociology more generally.
October 2021
Ali Meghji, UK
Towards a theoretical synergy: Critical race theory and decolonial thought in Trumpamerica and Brexit Britain, Current Sociology, first published November 16, 2020
September 2021
Yoshie Yanagihara, Japan
The practice of surrogacy as a phenomenon of ‘bare life’: An analysis of the Japanese case applying Agamben’s theory, Current Sociology, 69( 2): 231–248
August 2021
Defne Över, USA
From self-censorship to contention: Shame triggered participation in the 2013 Gezi Protests, Current Sociology, first published May 20, 2021
July 2021
Guya Accornero, Portugal
Contentious buildings. The struggle against eviction in NYC’s Lower East Side, Current Sociology, first published May 19, 2021
June 2021
Hans Erik Næss, Norway
Sociology and the ethnography of human rights at mega-sport events, Current Sociology 68( 7): 972–989
May 2021
Kinneret Lahad, Israel, with Vanessa May, UK
Holding back and hidden family displays: Reflections on aunthood as a morally charged category, Current Sociology, first published March 07, 2021
April 2021
Marie Leth Meilvang, Denmark
From rain as risk to rain as resource: Professional and organizational changes in urban rainwater management, Current Sociology, first published February 11, 2021
March 2021
Ian Carrillo, USA
The racial fix and environmental state formation, Current Sociology, first published April 10, 2020
February 2021
Suhad Daher-Nashif, Qatar
Colonial management of death: To be or not to be dead in Palestine, Current Sociology, first published August 28, 2020
January 2021
Geoffrey Mead, Australia
Proper recognition: Personhood and symbolic capital in contemporary sociology, Current Sociology, first published June 27, 2020
November 2020
Man Xu, Canada
Constructing the refugee: Comparison between newspaper coverage of the Syrian refugee crisis in Canada and the UK, Current Sociology, first published August 18, 2020
October 2020
Myrna Dawson, Canada
Identifying femicide locally and globally: Understanding the utility and accessibility of sex/gender-related motives and indicators, Current Sociology, first published August 28, 2020 (co-authored with Michelle Carrigan)
September 2020
Robbie Shilliam, USA
Redeeming the ‘ordinary working class’, Current Sociology 68(2): 223–240
August 2020
Kathia Serrano Velarde, Germany
Informal learning in formal organizations: The case of volunteer learning in the hospital, Current Sociology 68(4): 572–591
July 2020
Kyohee Kim and Peer Smets, The Netherlands
Home experiences and homemaking practices of single Syrian refugees in an innovative housing project in Amsterdam, Current Sociology, first published online June 12, 2020
June 2020
Lorenza Antonucci, UK and Simone Varriale, UK
Unequal Europe, unequal Brexit: How intra-European inequalities shape the unfolding and framing of Brexit, Current Sociology 68(1): 41–59